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Circular,  no.  9 
Conf  Pam  12mo  #785 


HEAD- QUARTERS  RESERVE  FORCES  OP  VIRGINIA, 
Richmond,  September  22d,  1864. 


CIRCULAR/ 
Xo.  9.      \ 


I.  Detailed  men  in  the  employment  of  the  Nitre  and  .Mining  Bureau,  who 
belong  to  existing  military  companies  authorized  by  the  "War  Department, 
will  not  be  enrolled  in  the  Local  Forces  organizing  under  Genera]  0 

Xo.  21,  issued  from  these  head-quarter?  August  13th,  1861.  All  other  de- 
tailed men  employed  i,>  the  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau,  who  are  lit  for  field 
service,  will  be  enrolled  in  the  companies;  but  men  employed  at  furnaces 
a3  founders  and  keepers  will  under  no  circumstances  be  called  from  their 
furnaces,  while  in  blast,  either  for  drill  or  any  other  duty. 

II.  Men  detailed  as  provost  and  conscript  guard3  will  be  enrolled;  but, 
whenever  practicable,  the  men  detailed  for  such  duly,  in  a  couuty  or  cor- 
poration,  will    be  organized    into  a  company  by  the  addition  of 

site  number  of  other  detailed  men  thereto  for  the  purpose. 

III.  Men  detailed  for  duty  in  hospitals,  in  the  Ordnance,  Quartern) 
and  Commissary  departments,  for  the  benefit  of  railroad  and  other  compa- 
nies and  corporations,  as  members  of  ambulance  committees,  as  assessors 
and  agents  of  tax  in  kind,  and  all  other  detailed  men  not  specially  excepted 
in  orders  from  the  War  Department  or  from  these  head- quarters,  will  be 
enrolled  in  the  Local  Forces;  but  county  commandants  will,  in  the  exer- 
cise of  a  sound  discretion,  sec  that  the  business  of  the  Government,  ot 
corporations  and  contractors,  is  not  unnecessarily  suspended  or  interfered 
with  by  the  drills  and  other  duties  required  of  the  Local  Forces. 

IV.  Men  otherwise  liable  to  service,  who  are  allowed  temporary  exemp- 
tions by  virtue  of  pending  applications  for  detail,  will  be  required  to  per- 
form service  in  the  companies. 

V.  No  person  liable  to  regular  field  service  in  the  Reserve  Forces  will 
be  either  enrolled  or  commissioned  in  the  Local  Forces.  Xone  but  detailed 
men  and  those  who  are  exempt  from  regular  service  in  the  Active  and  Be- 
serve  Forces  will  be  enrolled  in  the  Local  Forces. 

VI.  All    exempts    :  ges  of  17  and    ■> 

ble  of  Geld  service  and  refuse  to  enroll  themselves  in  the  companies,  will 
iaratcly  listed,  with  the  grounds  of  refusal  in  each  case  distinctly 
1,  and  reported  to  these  head-quarters. 

By  command  of  Brigadier-General  Kf.mpek. 

R.  II.  CATLETT, 

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